Tag: Technology
Houston-area man pleads guilty to smuggling $160 million high-powered chips to China | Houston Public Media
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In a purported first-of-its-kind case, a Houston-area man pleaded guilty to federal charges of smuggling $160 million worth of high-powered semiconductors...
Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses | Houston Public Media
The autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo plans to file a voluntarily software recall after several reports that its self-driving taxis illegally passed stopped school buses.
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As Solar Geoengineering Enters its Startup Phase, Governments Must Address Emerging Security Risks
Just decades ago, the idea of artificially cooling the planet to help fight climate change was viewed as science fiction. But as climate change...
Rizzbot vs IShowspeed: Company behind robot sues influencer for damages
Rizzbot vs influencer: Company files lawsuit An attorney at the center of a bizarre new lawsuit, one that pits the "Rizzbot"...
Why The Next Great Infrastructure Risk Is Distributed
The fight for global power is increasingly playing out across the world’s networks, data centers, and energy grids. Critical infrastructure, including electrical grids and...
Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace | Fortune
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI may be gunning for his job, but he doesn’t seem too worried about it. In an expansive interview with...
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo says Meta’s team didn’t anticipate risks of AI products well—her first task under Sam Altman was to address mental health concerns | Fortune
AI chatbots have been under scrutiny for mental health risks that come with users developing relationships with the tech or using them for therapy...
After shutting down Vine in 2017, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests in a reboot of the app with more than 10,000 archived six-second videos | Fortune
When Twitter, now X, shut down Vine in 2017, users thought its six-second videos were gone forever—but now, the former CEO who shuttered the...
The CEO of $2.2 billion AI company Turing can’t live without ChatGPT, swears by his Kindle, and has only taken 2 weeks of vacation in 7 years | Fortune
Being in the C-suite is a high-pressure job with long hours, board responsibilities, and intense scrutiny. But what is it like to be a...
AI’s capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study
Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance and lack scientific rigor.
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